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'RAILWAY TIE. APPLIGA'IION FILED NOV 17 1905 Unmut Witnesses ,wa/wm.

-. 'NTTED .STATES PATENT OFFICE'.

ZAOHARY T. BOOTH AND- JAMES F. BITTLE, or BRUNSWICK; MARYLAND,

^ .ASSIGNORSOE ONE-THIRD Tf) CHRISTIAN SMITH, OF BRUNSWICK, MARY- LAND.`

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Patented Feb. so, 190e.

Application led November 17, 1905. Serial No. 287,794.

y To all whom il? may concern.:-

Be it known that we, ZAOHARY T. BOOTH and JAMES F..Brr'rLE, citizens of the United States, residing at Brunswick, in the county of Frederick and State of Maryland, have invented certain'new and useful Improvements in Railway-Ties; and We do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had. io to the annexed drawings, -making a part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The present invention has vfor its object toprovde a railroad-tie that will .be simple in rs'construction and possess many features of superiority over the ties in ordinary use, rovision being made to prevent the rails om spreading when secured to the tie and prevent the tie from sliding from the road-bed zo and es ecially-constructed means for holding the ba last in place.

The invention consists in a railroad-tie constructed substantially as shown in the drawips and hereinafter described and Figure 1 ofthe drawings is a top plan view of a railroad-tie constructed in vaccordance with the invention, the rails being shown in place thereon; Fi 2, a lon itudinal vertical section taken on line 2 2 o Fig. l; Fig. 3, a

detail view in erspective, showing one en of the -tie with allast in lace; Fig. 4, a plan view of the sheet-metal blirnk from which the tie is formed, the dotted lines showing that portion of the blank which is to be bent into position to form the tie, the fenders being shown in fulllines, which are also bent up in position shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

In the accompanying drawin s, X in Fig.

49 4 is to represent the sheet-metal blank from which the tie is formed and which may be of any suitable size and thickness. In describing the construction of the tie the same letters of reference used in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 will be used in the blank shown in Fig. 4, so that the parts u on the blank will be more readily 1 .understoo The bottom of the-tie is re resented at A both in the completed tie an in the blank, 50 and that orton of the tie which is to form the sides t ereof is indicated at B and is bent up in the blank ats right angles to the bottom of the tie. The sides B of the tie have lioi'izontally and inwardly extending retainingflanges a to hold the blocks C inl position #.5

`therein and also bracing-lugs b, against which abut the rails D E to spreading, said lugs bein vertical and on the same lane with the si es of the tie. The sides of the tie have notches c toA receive the turned-down ends d of'clam in supports F for the rails, said rails being el thereon by suitable spikes e or other like fastenin means. Thefasteningmeans extendsthroug elongated openings f 1n lugs g, one u on each side of the clamping-support F an inte al therewith, the holes or openings in the ugs being long, so in case the spike or fastening device becomes crippled and cannot be removed another spike or fastening device ma be driven down beside it. Y

The bottom A of the tieis cut in blank, so as to form fenders G when bent up in position and may be of' any suitable number and arranged as near to ether as found preferable, ,7 5 which serve the ouble purpose of forming stops for the blocks C when first placed in the tie and also fenders to hold the ballast within. the space Z when the blocks are removed for any purpose.

On the bottom of the tie and upon the under side thereof are transversely-corrugated feet H to prevent the tie sliding from roadbeds or working out of alinement.

In describing the construction of the tie it is evident that many` changes or modifications may be resorted to as would come within the ordinary judgment of the mechanic without in any manner departing from the essential features of the invention.

Having now fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,.is

. 1. A metal railroad-tie coniprisi a bottom and side walls integral with eac other, blocks located between the side walls and a plurality of fenders integral with the bottoniofthe tie and extending up vertically to hold the ballast in place within the tie when either block is removed, substantially as and for the vpurpose described.

2. A metal railroad-tie comprisin a bottom and'side walls integral with eac other, blocks located between the side walls, vertiprevent them from ,embrace` the side walls o cally-extendinfenders abutt' against the inner ends of t e blocks, and c amping-supports having downwardlextending ends to the tie and having 5 vlu s with elongated openings therein for suitab e s ikes or like fastening means to hold the ra s on the supports, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we aHiX om` signatures in presence of two witnesses.

'ZACHARY T BOOTH. JAMES F. BITTLE.

Witnesses:

ROBERT M. H. LE 's E, EDWARD C. SuAFE 

